One technique I learned early in my photographic journey was that if I faced a difficult lighting situation that might fool the light meter in my camera, I could get a meter reading from an 18% gray card. This often would give me the proper exposure for the scene.
Unfortunately, not all of us carry around an 18% gray card, which led to a second techniqu…
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